It is now safe to cache a reference to a cache and expect consistent results.
Changing identifiers altered cache results where a reference was
held to the cache. Identifiers have been set to be cached with
identifiers included so the caches are separate.
As a consequence of this it was identified that invalidation events
and identifiers don't easily work together as an event can't determine
which identifiers should be used for cache invalidation. So invalidation
events have been made incompatible with identifiers being set. No core
code used this combination as it's not possible to understand any expected
behaviour.
Event invalidation for application and session caches was centralised to the same
location. The only difference was the name of the lastinvalidation variable. This
improves support and consistency of invalidation code.
purge_all() and purge_by_definition() look in the configuration
for which caches are available and then creates them to purge them.
The configuration stores the values used by initialise(), not
initialise_unit_test_instance() and would therefore fail to purge
all caches if they were not purged by another means.
In the case of filestore, it's purged by unit tests, in the case
of memcache(d), it purges the whole store when a single definition
is requested.
Therefore all configuration was moved into the configuration file
during unit tests and does not have any special override codes in
the unit test infrastructure.
If the cache does all the dereferencing when it stores and loads
the objects, then the cache loaders don't need to do that work.
This is true of all caches that use something other than PHP's memory
to store their results.
The cache store mode is now included in the performance stats
printed at the bottom of the page.
It is represented as either [a] [s] or [r] and a title is used
to actually state the mode.
Cache stores are now responsible for deciding if they are suitable
for use as the primary cache store during unit and acceptance tests
Changes are as follows:
* New method: cache_store::ready_to_be_used_for_testing
* Core cache store have been updated to override this method as
required.
* MongoDB usesafe default changed to true to match actual default
behaviour.
Cache data source aggregate functionality was found to be broken
and unused, because of this the decision was made to remove it
rather than fix it.
As it was broken we did not follow typical deprecation methods and
instead the code was removed outright with only structure
remaining and left deprecated.
